Lesson Six – Family Home

This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise typing and formatting lines of text using a word processed document to describe some of the rooms and different parts of a family home.

The class can explain and model how a computer can be used to share and present different ideas on a specific topic when producing some display labels.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise typing and formatting lines of text using a word processed document to describe some of the rooms and different parts of a family home

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify the best ways of typing sentences to describe different rooms and parts of a house and a vocabulary word bank to help type sentences using a keyboard to describe different rooms and parts that can be found in a family home.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to type and format lines of text using a word processed document to describe rooms and parts of a family home.

This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to practise structuring and formatting different documents to make labels describing rooms and objects that can be found in a range of family homes. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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